MUGHAL INDIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

This composition is based on a scene attributed to Payag, and painted around 1650-60 (11A.20; Linda York Leach, Mughal and Other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, London, 1995, pp.475-7, no.3.88). Other versions of this scene are known, including a slightly simplified version which sold in these Rooms, 11 June 1986, lot 141. Another simplified example, painted in a distinctively Rajasthani idiom, is in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad (76.165; John Seyller (ed.), Rajasthani Paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad, 2015, pp.32-3, no.10).